Even with Yu Lian's abilities at this point, he couldn't help but feel a ripple of unease at this critical moment. He clearly heard the heraldry mech's alarm: it had sensed the danger of some savage energy gathering.
The heraldry mech's detection systems were ultimately a combination of alchemy and technology. They couldn't detect any boiling sea of blood, but they could sense the rising temperature.
The next instant, the surging, scorching black hole began to move.
Only then did Yu Lian feel the earth-shaking blast wave. It was as if the firmament itself had shattered in that dazzling burst.
The void for tens of millions of miles around caved inward. A pull from the abyss silently spilled out of the churning tide of blood, spreading like an invisible, intangible, yet omnipresent net of unyielding threads over the psychic.
At that moment, even Yu Lian couldn't help but feel a flicker of illusion. The entire Tirillo ship Valiant Advance beneath him seemed like a little boat on the verge of capsizing in a storm. And he was no more than an ant aboard it.
Perhaps the shock wave that had torn through the stars was so exaggerated that it completely concealed the power of restraint that had already spread beneath him. By the time his increasingly sluggish mind registered it, he discovered that he was standing on a lake whose surface was made of the purest mercury.
His reflection stood on the surface of the lake, but red threads that had appeared from nowhere had seized his body. His reflection was like a puppet whose every movement was controlled: its limbs were stiff and heavy, twisted into horrifying angles.
Yu Lian felt a twinge of pain in his joints, but his mind remained calm. He was certain that if he